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Revenge is nothing elfe but Lifting Anger, or M»wf, as the Greeks 

 c; 11 it ; and, if the palhon is violent, a man will ratlier die than not 

 fatisfy it. This is the cafe of fome barbarous nations, who, by the 

 pradice of war and hunting, have got a ferocity of manners, which, 

 inftead of making them languilh and die when they are affronted, 

 like the tame and gentle favage of Guiana or the OrangOutang, will 

 not reft fatisfied, till they have appeafed their anger by the death of the 

 perfon who alTrontcd them. And, as thofe men haA^e greater ftrcngth 

 of Mind than we have, and greater perfcvarence in al! their refolu- 

 tions and enterprifes, they will wait many years for an opportunity 

 of fatisfying their revenge. 



As, from a Senfe of Honour, and of what is Beautiful and Refpec- 

 table in Characfter, arifes Anger, fo alfo Love and Friendfhip, As 

 to Love, it Is acknowledged by every body, that it is founded up- 

 on our Senfe of Beauty ; and, as to Friendlhip, it cannot be with- 

 out Mutual Efteem ; and that again cannot be without each of the 

 parties having a Senfe of Worth and Beauty of Charader in 

 the other. This connedion betwixt Anger and Friendfhip A- 

 riftotle appears to have known very well, when he tells us, that 

 the nations in whom ©"/*«?, or Anger, is a prevailing Paflion, 

 are moft inclined to Friendfhip * : And, accordingly, the In- 

 dians of North America are as remarkable for their Friendfliips, 

 as for their Anger and their Revenge. And Homer has made the 

 charader of Achilles perfedly confiftent, when, at the fame time 



that 



• De Republica, lib. 2. cap. 7. As the conneclion betwixt Anger .nnd 

 Friendfhip is not very apparent, 1 will fubjoin the words of Ariftotle : 'o ivfUi it. 



Til i rrtmt t» fihuriKtu — icvrn yct^ %J\ii n t^j ■4'''X''5 ov'^/k!, S (piXcvf.it. <rtiunn it- xoof 

 yicf T»t/{ e-vtr,tii( Kxi ^iXcuf o iticof «i{It«< jI*«AAbv,)i jtjos t»v{ «y»4)Ta;, •A(y»>jf(irSai tcuirccf — ■ 



And a little after he quotes a poet, who fays, 'Oi to» a-sj* o-n^lxnif/ti h xxi s-i^k 

 fiirtuTi. — And it is a common obfervation, that mens Anger and Hatred are in pro- 

 portion to their Love and Friendfhip. 



